‘Batman V Superman’ Will Do Its Best To Make Your Butt Fall Asleep By Being Extremely Long

So when it comes to Zack Snyder, he broke into the film industry making tight, entertaining films. Dawn of The Dead and 300 are rapid fire and entertaining, earning him a chance to make Watchmen and Man of Steel. The big difference between those films and his beginnings is how long they are. Man of Steel is 2 hours and 28 minutes, while Watchmen was a little over 2 1/2 hours.

I was nearly certain this was going to be another “review” where that dick gown mentions a couple times that he saw the movie and then proceeds to rant the remainder away on some tangentially related personal annoyance, in this case overlong movie runtimes. Quite relieved to see that was not the case. I’m marginally interested in this movie, so hoping for an actual review. Don’t let me down uproxx.

If a movie runs over 2 hours it better not only be good, but the extra run time needs to be necessary. Of the movies you listed, only The Dark Knight and Avengers wouldn’t have benefited from a shorter run time. You’ll notice in TDK and Avengers they didn’t just shoehorn pointless characters and plotlines in for no reason. For example, in DKR that random cop that’s not Joseph Gordon-Levitt (who’s arguably ALSO pointless), or half of the plot lines in AoU. I’m not saying a movie can’t be 2+ hours and be great, but more often than not long run times work against movies.

Batman v Superman has to introduce a new Batman, Alfred, and any other members of the Batfamily showing up. Then you’ve got to bring Luthor into the mix, and give us a refresher on the MoS plot and the Superman side characters, Perry and Lois and Jimmy. Set up the conflict between Supes and Batman, which should go until the end of act 2. In act 3 they team up and take down whatever villain (Doomsday) Luthor brought into play. This all seems necessary and would form the bones of a good movie, that would not need to be over 2 hours.

But that’s not good enough. Instead they are giving us Wonder Woman, Flash, Aqua Man, Cyborg, and god knows what else that hasn’t leaked yet. I doubt it’s necessary and doubt it will make the movie better. Just like that sort of stuff didn’t make DKR or AoU better.

If the movie’s entertaining, I have no problem with the run time. Wolf Of Wall Street ran for three hours, and you really didn’t notice the time pass because it was so fun to watch. BvS has so much it’s trying to establish and accomplish (maybe to its detriment as a standalone film, but hopefully not) that a two and half hour run time is easily justifiable.